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|author=Kevin Maher

|title=The Fields

|rating=4.5

|genre=General Fiction

|summary=Jim Finnegan is embarking on his teens in 1980s Dublin but that's not all he's embarking on. A lad from an average Catholic family in many ways, he has five sisters, a mother who believes the supreme threat is a telling off from the parish priest and his father is understandably tired all the time. Between school and the cacophony of his mother's coffee mornings Jim learns a lot but nothing as useful as what happens when you become very friendly with a pair of pillows or what to do with the girls he and his mates ogle from afar. Then suddenly a lot of things change almost simultaneously and life doesn't seem so average any more.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349138672</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Boat

|summary=They say one door doesn't shut but for another opens. Wilfred Price, the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literature, is living proof of that. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy to be his, after they both fell in love at her father's funeral. It did leave Grace alone and bereft, and forced out of town in a very unsavoury fashion, but for Wilfred and Flora married life is fine. Hesitant, but fine. He's finally got into the swing of things as regards calling her ''dear'', and conjugal relations, and she has finally felt able to speak up about her place in the household of her husband and his father – and whoever happens to be left to settle in the workshop, having died on the loo and got stuck in a non-coffin-shaped pose. But do those doors stay firmly shut…?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Mr Lynch's Holiday~~

~~|author=Catherine O'Flynn~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=General Fiction~~

|summary=Having read and enjoyed both of her previous novels, [[What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn|What Was Lost]] and [[The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn|The News Where You Are]] I was looking forward to this latest book. The story tells us of a father who surprises his son, living in Spain, with a visit. The father is recently widowed and the son's long-term partner has very recently left him, although it's some time before he admits that to his dad. What begins as a holiday turns into something of a pschological rescue mission as Dermot begins to see the problems depressing Eamonn and the ways in which he might be able to help. There's a lot about familial relationships in the book, as well as ideas about living at home and abroad.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918563</amazonuk>~~

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